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It just occurred to me that I haven't tested my drawing tablet in a while, and I'm running Linux 3.0 now. Wonder if it works yet, or if it still locks everything up and causes a kernel panic. #fatchance
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 19:34:15 UTC from web-
@starshine .... OH MY CELESTIA. IT IS WORKING?! Brb, going to go spend the rest of the week playing with this.
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 19:38:30 UTC from web-
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Sunday, 21-Aug-11 19:46:58 UTC from web
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Hmm. It doesn't seem to be picking up pen pressure. Well, it at least recognizes pen position (and doesn't die when I plug in the tablet), so that's good I guess?
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 19:46:21 UTC from web-
... Aha. Have to actually go to preferences and tell it that a tablet is plugged in first. Weird.
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 19:49:33 UTC from web -
@starshine That is awesome. It is all about the apps. A tablet and a joystick aren't too different after all.
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 19:49:46 UTC from web-
@fnordly no, they really are. :) Up until today, every time I tried plugging it in, either X11 would segfault, or I'd get a kernel panic. This is the first time I have actually seen it work outside of OS X.
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 19:52:31 UTC from web-
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@colfax Haha. At the moment, everything on my computer works except Java, so I am not even going to touch anything. And if that means no Minecraft, so be it. I'll go upgrade and lose my tablet once I get bored of it and remember that I'm a crappy artist.
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 19:57:41 UTC from web
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@starshine Have you ever hacked at a device driver module for Linux? It is actually kind of fun, because everyone that has ever written one has just followed a skeleton structure of a preexisting module. They are all alike and all different and all varying sizes and amounts of complexity and simplicity at the same time. In other words: the source for the device driver is likely to be the most straight-forward part of your kernel for you to just jump into and experiment with... Unless you don't compile the kernel yourself. In that case, I don't know if this would help.
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 19:54:28 UTC from web-
@fnordly I had a horrible experience with trying to debug the driver for my old PCMCIA ethernet card back in 2000, because it had a strange bug that shot the load average through the roof after a few minutes. I eventually gave up and bought a different card that worked. Haven't tried since then. I hate hardware.
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 19:56:09 UTC from web-
@starshine You did the right thing back then with that, but alternative pointing devices or something like a GPS to plug into the USB port are necessarily very simple. The complex part is the interaction between the application software (X or the cartographic program for my GPS) and the kernel. The specification is both vague and strict. Mainly, Microsoft or Apple makes a few dollars off of support while the kernel hackers and application programmers catch up. I took about a week for me to etch out a character device driver and logger for my GPS. It mapped many miles. I used the software that came with the $100 device for a whole half of an hour, before it stopped working, and I uninstalled it.
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 20:04:52 UTC from web-
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 20:07:00 UTC from web
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Holy crap that is really neat. It keeps separate tool settings for every individual input device. So I can move layers with the mouse, draw fine strokes with the pen, and erase huge fat segments with the eraser. This actually makes the Gimp seem ... sort of usable.
Sunday, 21-Aug-11 20:01:30 UTC from web
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